The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.